good news, i'm missing more nasty winter weather at home. bad news, i probably won't see home for another three weeks.
however, i'm still in NZ--so that's a bonus. i've managed to visit all my favorite old restaurants and tried a couple new ones. i miss the hell out of some of the old bars and the places that never reopened after the quakes. again with the good news, more things are moving out from the city center so it getting better for those of us who have to walk or take a bus everywhere. its weird looking back at the changes from the last five years...from a whole city...to the bruised city...to the destroy one...and now watching them rebuild over the last two years.
cheers!
lenacristina:
where do you live, and what happened there?
shaneq:
I'm from new york and they've gotten like two feet of snow over the last week or so (and more on the way!), but I'm working in New Zealand (and McMurdo Station Antarctica). I come down most every year--but about 3 years ago they had a series of earthquakes that leveled a huge part of the city center and made a mess of the suburbs. Just my luck, the biggest of the quakes happened while I was here. The city is slowly coming back, but a lot of the land can't be rebuilt on (it turned into something like quicksand) so a lot of businesses are moving out toward the airport where I work.